Test 10 · ★ · China: the Silk Road and the Tang

«everyone in asia eats with chopsticks» says Mei. who'd correct her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, Mei · What happens: eat, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 54 «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 eats	punct
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 eats	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 asia	case
4	asia	asia	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 everyone	nmod
5	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 chopsticks	case
7	chopsticks	chopstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eats	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 eats	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Mei	Mei	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 'd	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 'd	nsubj
13	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 says	ccomp
14	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 'd	xcomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 'd	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	everyone					with chopsticks	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	Mei						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody; she is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 right	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 right	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nobody	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					right property	tree rules

Option 2

A penguin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 penguin	det
2	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A Roman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Roman	det
2	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Someone from Thailand or India

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Thailand	case
3	Thailand	Thailand	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Someone	nmod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 India	cc
5	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Thailand	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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